Before they start this state up again, someone needs to explain to me why increasing the budget from around $30 Billion to around $34 billion (as the Republicans have proposed) qualifies as "draconian cuts" (as claimed by Gov. Mark (Little Lord Fauntleroy" Dayton

Governor Dayton wants to tax the rich and he wasn't getting his way, that is why he shut the state down. Governor Dayton is a trustafarian -- his family started Target (Dayton-Hudson Corp). Naturally, he holds his trust fund in South Dakota where there are no state income taxes.

He only won election last year because the GOP ran a trainwreck and there is always a pesky third party candidate -- a legacy of Jesse Ventura.

A good blog with news on what Big Gov't thugs are doing in Minnestoa is Shot in the Dark.http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/

Example (Actually College Republicans via SITD blog):

"A little later, a group of individuals in wheelchairs started yelling at us and telling us that we were “killing” disabled, homeless, and sick people. The police shut them down, but it just got worse from there. A little while later, a man came up to us and said “history will repeat itself and all of your heads will be cut off.”

The unions are pretty classy, aren’t they?

This was really just the tip of the iceberg. We had people poking our eyes with umbrellas, having their 8 year old children trying to cover up our signs, trying to push us and stifle our free speech, flicking us off, cussing at us, antagonizing us, harassing us… the list goes on and on.

What is truly important, though, is that throughout the entire night, we stood strong and stayed above the fray. We never worked to stifle the oppositions free speech, we never threatened them, and we were never disrespectful."

Example of what governor Mark "trust fund baby" Dayton is doing.....he is trying to make this as painful as possible. Governor Walker offered to have Wisconsin run the Stillwater lift bridge so it could remain open, but Sir Mark the brave said no. He is also shutting down things that can stand alone on their revenue during July 4th weekend, such as the Minnesota Zoo.

Mark "don't ask me why my trust fund is based in tax free South Dakota" Dayton has declared total war.

John Sandford will write his next book entitled DFL Prey. Lucas Davenport will have to move to Wisconsin to get a paying police job where he will investigate Cheese Counterfeiters, Serial Judge chokers, and a deadly Canadian Geese killing militia run out of an innocent looking home in Madison that has an Audi TT parked in front with goose feathers in the grill.

A bit of history.....back in the 1930s they were two separate parties, the Democrat party, and the Farmer-Labor party. And where did the Farmer-Labor party get its money from in 1930s depression Minnesota? Joe Stalin, the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world. After the fall of the USSR, records were released showing the large amounts of cash transfers from that monster to Minnesota Farmer-labor party.

Whenever I see something like "You can't spell X without Y" I think back to the son's reaction to those bumperstickers around Madison that say No War in My Name!. And the first time he saw one, he said Well, I can't say that -- because W, A, and R are in his first name. (I'll let you guess what that name is :) )